Start with left hand on sidepull just left of the center crack and right hand on pocket just right of the center. Match and throw left hand up to the lip, like you are tossing your Dwarven friend over. Traverse using the lip of the roof as hands and the slab as feet, then topout along the right arete where Welcome to Hobbiton finishes.

Dwarf Tossing

Welcome to Hobbiton

The Eye of Sauron

The Hobbit Traverse

The Trek to Mordor

Gimme a Boost

Forrohan

The easier of the 2 main mantles on the boulder. Start under the roof on the left pressing into the scoop like you are giving a Samwise Gamgee a lift. Reach back to the lip and mantle.

Sit Start on horizontal pockets where slab meets roof. Place feet on slabby edges and crunch up like a Hobbitt! Reach right to the corner. Step right then reach up to the knobby edge on the lip. Grab the top edge with the left hand. Throw up the left foot and mantel up!

Start in the pockets where the roof and slab meet. From there reach way out right to find the best part of the seam. Next snag the lip of the roof and mantle.

Start on the large slab ledge to the right of the roof. Traverse left using whatever suits your fancy. Finish the same as "Gimme a Boost" with a mantle on the far left.

Start on the far left on the lip of the roof. Traverse right using only the flat rock that makes the roof (no slab until the roof ends). Finishes when you wrap around to the far right slab and top out.

Starts with match left on corner. Designated small feet on slab, and crimp rails above guide to a top out to the right. Crux comes as you get the high right foot finish. Avoid cheating on any hands/feet . Just trying to add in a decent warm up

The Hobbit Hole has a Richmond area oddity, a roof. Aside from the obvious lip traverse (The Hobbit Traverse), there are not any clear cut boulder problems. Instead, there are an abundance of holds that can be used, or not used, in the making of your own herculean concoctions. Be sure to get those hamstrings warm first, mantling is on the menu.

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Routes in The Hobbit Hole